Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found for the first time the fingerprints left by the explosion of the first stars in the Universe. They detected three distant gas clouds whose chemical composition matches what we expect from the first stellar explosions. These findings bring us one step closer to understanding the nature of the first stars that formed after the Big Bang.
The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2306/
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The ESO Department of Communication
3 May 2023
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